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hot off the machine

Last month when I pulled out all my stash so we could assemble Tommy B's quilt top, I had a hard time putting it back up. You see, several years ago I purchased these "panels" on clearance from a quilt store. Seeing as I had two whole strips of piecings (How does my math always wind up being so off?) leftover from Tommy's quilt top, it seemed a shame to let everything be folded and put away.  I mean, there was another quilt top screaming to be made. (Yes, I hear your voices shouting "One project at a time!" and "That's not on February's to-do-list" and "You can't be SERIOUS!") So I did what any scatter-brained project starter does best: I started another quilt top. :)

It didn't quite turn out like I had envisioned it, but that's okay. So here it is, four minutes off the sewing machine:
the side view (notice the long pieced strip near the side...that's the leftover)

and an upside view (just pretend you're standing behind the headboard of a bedframe)
Now I can fold it up and put it in the closet until I actually have time to quilt it.
And since someone asked me in disbelief just how many quilt projects (I'm so thankful they didn't say sewing projects!) I had going at the moment, I was almost in as much shock once I counted them all up.
  1. Bobby's ten plus years in the making cowboy quilt - the end is in sight! :)
  2. Kayla Shaw (church group)- our quilting group is 2/3 through hand quilting the inside
  3. Tommy Burns (church group)- top is made; layers are basted
  4. Krista Daniels (church group) - pieces all cut out
  5. Heart applique quilt, twin size - top is 3/4 finished
  6. Yellow/Blue Diamonds, twin size - cut out
And I would love to have a quilt top to take my Mom to work on the end of March, but realistically I don't know if I can get that done. Since her quilts are going to grandkids, that would require sketching out my pantry quilt idea or the Monopoly fanatic quilt idea, then cutting and piecing.  I'm afraid there's too many other things that MUST be done before then to justify tackling another huge project. But we should never say never, right?
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Jennifer said…
I wish I was graduating!!
February 23, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Becky said…
I love your quilts, it makes me long for my own quilting days. I need someone to quilt with me, that would be a fun girls night.
February 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM
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